You know that I am a laissez-faireist. But few people understand what this means. I am only laissez faire in that if people are being peaceable in their mutually consensual dealings, I do not want government force imposed upon them.
It is an entirely different matter if you insisted on shoving suicidal, self-mutilating, and other morbid gestures in my face and you hinted that this was the result of abuse from childhood that actually long predated early adolescence. As you took the initiative to make such loud cries for help, you can be damn sure I am going to intervene.
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.
—Elie Wiesel
The cries for help will not go unanswered.
